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Hira

#5,302 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Hira has been given to 681 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #5,302 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Hira, 2025

1 in 138,000

Hira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hira: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hira means

Hira has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Hira

One of the source’s documented entries for Hira records a meaning of diamond.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 681 girls were recorded with the name Hira between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1999; its best national rank was #3,527 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,476 in 2020 to #5,302 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,759 in 2015 to #5,302 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Hira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,302
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hira was born before 2003 — so the typical Hira is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
681
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (239).

Is Hira rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,065
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,174
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,457
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.6%
Peak was 1999 (35)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,527
1999

Spellings of Hira

Hira is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 18.0% against Hira's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hira is used

Across 1910–2025, Hira was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 374,562 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hira around the world

Where Hira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #845
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2023
    #630
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    1993–2016
    #868
    in 2016
  • France
    1997–2025
    #2,315
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hira by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,302
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,174
Best rank ever
#3,527
1999
Peak year
1999
35 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
681
Count in 2025
24

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